Pushkar

Second day in pushkar, I appriciate this place and the spirit here; it's small and there are tourists, but like Banaras, it has the genuine feel of a spiritual place, a holy place, and everyone except the Isrealis is respectful and humbled by it. The holy lake of pushkar is supposed to be the site where Brahma arose out of a lotus flower out of Vishnu's navel, or variously where Brahma dropped a flower to begin the process of creation. Once when Brahma perfomed a Yagaya (sacrafice) his wife I forget her name didn't show up. In retaliation for this slight, Brahma took another wife. In her anger over this, his wife cursed him that he should only be worshipped in Pushkar, no where else. I haven't actually worshipped at the brahma temple, even though it is fifty feet from my hotel, maybe I'll do that after I write this entry. I have done puja in the holy lake, and wished for the well being of all of you who I could think of, family and friends and family friends, you have all been well wished for, Indian style.

i didn't mean to insult isrealis above. But they have sort of a bad reputation in India, because there are such huge heards of them--all Isrealis come to India or maybe Thailand after they finish their mandatory military service. Because it's just sort of expected and cheap that they travel, they don't really do it for the right reasons, and just sort of stick together and smoke hash. But, in there defense, imagine if there was a similar cultural construct in America where we all went to India to party--it would be so much uglier than the isrealis, we would be drunken and violent. Sort of like what we've done to some places in Mexico, cancun etc.

Anyway, there's that, maybe sort of an unnecessary moment on the blog. Anyway, I got a ticket to ride a train from Ajmer (near here) to Mumbai tomorrow morning, will get to Mumbai tuesday morning.